Pakistani airstrike on Kabul ammo depot triggered hours of secondary blasts

A Pakistani soldier at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. PHOTO: AFP Pakistani air strikes struck Taliban’s military installations in major urban centres of Afghanistan as part of “Operation Ghazab Lil Haq” launched in response to “unprovoked and miscalculated” attacks on Pakistani border posts on Thursday.  Taliban regime officials confirmed air raids deep inside Afghanistan – as far … Read more

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Information Minister Attaullah Tarar speaks on clashes with ‘illegitimate’ Taliban regime

Information Minister Attaullah Tarar addresses a press conference in Islamabad on Friday. — SCREENGRAB Information Minister Attaullah Tarar is addressing a press conference on the recent clashes with what he said was the “illegitimate” Afghan Taliban regime. Providing details regarding ‘Operation Ghazab Lil Haq’ during a press conference, Tarar said Afghanistan carried out unprovoked attacks … Read more

Asif declares ‘open war’ as Taliban turn Afghanistan into ‘India’s colony’

‘Now there will be decisive action because our patience has reached its limit,’ says defence minister Defence Minister Khawaja Asif. PHOTO: APP/ File A day after “unprovoked and miscalculated” attacks on Pakistan’s military posts along Pak-Afghan border by Taliban regime forces, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif declared that Islamabad’s “patience has reached its limit” and that … Read more